Rebekah Karns

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Rebekah Karns is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebekah Karns has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Surgery and 17 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Rebekah Karns's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers), Liver Diseases and Immunity (10 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (9 papers). Rebekah Karns is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (11 papers), Liver Diseases and Immunity (10 papers) and Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (9 papers). Rebekah Karns collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Croatia. Rebekah Karns's co-authors include Darleen A. Sandoval, Randy J. Seeley, Christoffer Clemmensen, Hilary Wilson, Karen K. Ryan, Rohit Kohli, Andriy Myronovych, Petia Kovatcheva‐Datchary, Fredrik Bäckhed and Valentina Tremaroli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Rebekah Karns

73 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

FXR is a molecular target for the effects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy

2014 735 citations Karen K. Ryan, Valentina Tremaroli et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebekah Karns United States	27	1.1k	1.0k	683	671	503	75	3.0k
Hirohide Ohnishi Japan	31	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	361 0.5×	1.4k 2.1×	513 1.0×	100	3.7k
Marie‐Christine Saint‐Paul France	28	736 0.7×	878 0.8×	335 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	370 0.7×	77	3.5k
Kenji Imai Japan	35	1.6k 1.5×	403 0.4×	974 1.4×	898 1.3×	448 0.9×	157	4.0k
Ryo Takata Japan	29	1.1k 1.0×	524 0.5×	474 0.7×	609 0.9×	465 0.9×	148	2.9k
Xinshou Ouyang United States	28	1.3k 1.2×	490 0.5×	286 0.4×	645 1.0×	461 0.9×	50	3.3k
Masayuki Saruta Japan	28	421 0.4×	491 0.5×	339 0.5×	509 0.8×	418 0.8×	154	2.3k
Haixia Cao China	30	1.7k 1.5×	367 0.4×	270 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	456 0.9×	101	3.4k
Nicolas Venteclef France	33	1.5k 1.3×	807 0.8×	825 1.2×	948 1.4×	312 0.6×	75	3.8k
Hajime Isomoto Japan	26	601 0.5×	592 0.6×	219 0.3×	550 0.8×	232 0.5×	110	2.3k
Feng Zhou China	29	1.5k 1.3×	369 0.4×	221 0.3×	739 1.1×	286 0.6×	95	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebekah Karns

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Haberman, Yael, Tzipi Braun, Rebekah Karns, et al.. (2025). Short Ileal Microvillus Length Phenotype Associates with Progression from Inflammatory to Complicated Disease Behavior in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 32(2). 314–327.

Dillman, Jonathan R., Andrew T. Trout, Rachel Sheridan, et al.. (2024). Association Between MR Elastography Liver Stiffness and Histologic Liver Fibrosis in Children and Young Adults With Autoimmune Liver Disease. American Journal of Roentgenology. 223(1). e2431108–e2431108. 2 indexed citations

Jennings, Katherine M., Alexander Miethke, Alexander Bondoc, et al.. (2024). DNAJB1-PKAc Kinase Is Expressed in Young Patients with Pediatric Liver Cancers and Enhances Carcinogenic Pathways. Cancers. 17(1). 83–83. 1 indexed citations

Kong, Ling, et al.. (2023). The Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl Increases HIV Replication and Chemokine Co-Receptor Expression in Lymphocyte Cell Lines. Viruses. 15(4). 1027–1027. 5 indexed citations

Khandelwal, Pooja, Yael Haberman, Anil G. Jegga, et al.. (2023). Transcriptome analysis in acute gastrointestinal graft-<i>versus</i> host disease reveals a unique signature in children and shared biology with pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Haematologica. 108(7). 1803–1816. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Sachin, Jeffrey D. Vassallo, Kalpana Nattamai, et al.. (2023). pH regulates hematopoietic stem cell potential via polyamines. EMBO Reports. 24(5). e55373–e55373. 9 indexed citations

Glaser, Kathryn, Nikolai A. Timchenko, Rebekah Karns, et al.. (2023). EZH2 is a key component of hepatoblastoma tumor cell growth. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 71(2). e30774–e30774. 4 indexed citations

Valentine, Christina J., et al.. (2022). DHA Supplementation Attenuates Inflammation-Associated Gene Expression in the Mammary Gland of Lactating Mothers Who Deliver Preterm. Journal of Nutrition. 152(6). 1404–1414. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Sanghoon, Rebekah Karns, & Soona Shin. (2022). Mechanism of paracrine communications between hepatic progenitor cells and endothelial cells. Cellular Signalling. 100. 110458–110458. 2 indexed citations

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Sharma, Bal Krishan, Sumit Murab, Rebekah Karns, et al.. (2021). Fibrinogen activates focal adhesion kinase (FAK) promoting colorectal adenocarcinoma growth. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 19(10). 2480–2494. 17 indexed citations

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Chan, Calvin C., Michelle S. M. A. Damen, Maria E. Moreno‐Fernandez, et al.. (2020). Type I interferon sensing unlocks dormant adipocyte inflammatory potential. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2745–2745. 52 indexed citations

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Cast, Ashley, et al.. (2019). Liver Proliferation Is an Essential Driver of Fibrosis in Mouse Models of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Hepatology Communications. 3(8). 1036–1049. 24 indexed citations

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Schaub, Johanna, Kari A. Huppert, Ashley Cast, et al.. (2018). De novo formation of the biliary system by TGFβ-mediated hepatocyte transdifferentiation. Nature. 557(7704). 247–251. 208 indexed citations

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Saçma, Mehmet, Ruzhica Bogeska, Walter de Back, et al.. (2018). Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Perisinusoidal Niches are Protected From Aging. Experimental Hematology. 64. S43–S43. 1 indexed citations

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Vanoni, Simone, Chang Zeng, Yanfen Yang, et al.. (2018). 17β-Estradiol protects the esophageal epithelium from IL-13–induced barrier dysfunction and remodeling. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 143(6). 2131–2146. 30 indexed citations

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Carey, Alexandra, Wujuan Zhang, Kenneth D.R. Setchell, et al.. (2017). Hepatic MDR3 expression impacts lipid homeostasis and susceptibility to inflammatory bile duct obstruction in neonates. Pediatric Research. 82(1). 122–132. 3 indexed citations

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Karns, Rebekah, et al.. (2016). Quality assessment of lymph node sampling in rhabdomyosarcoma: A surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) program study. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 52(4). 614–617. 24 indexed citations

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Xanthakos, Stavra A., Todd Jenkins, David E. Kleiner, et al.. (2015). High Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery. Gastroenterology. 149(3). 623–634.e8. 95 indexed citations

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Ryan, Karen K., Valentina Tremaroli, Christoffer Clemmensen, et al.. (2014). FXR is a molecular target for the effects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy. Nature. 509(7499). 183–188. 735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Ge, Rebekah Karns, Nina Smolej Narančić, et al.. (2010). Common SNPs in FTO Gene Are Associated with Obesity Related Anthropometric Traits in an Island Population from the Eastern Adriatic Coast of Croatia. PLoS ONE. 5(4). e10375–e10375. 30 indexed citations

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